February 8, 2011

Joe Bageant, a wonderfully astute, tell-it-like-it-is writer who never fails to pierce the heart of modern day society's lunacy with wit and humor, has fallen gravely ill, as he explains here: A note from Joe

My Ode to JoeDear Joe:just so you know,
I love your writing,
yeah I love your prose
You've made me smile
all the way down to my toes
now I'm sending you healing
all the way up to your nose
So this little rhyme
though it ain't worth a dime,
was written to say
please God, let him stay -
don't send Bageant away!

A favorite snippet of Bageant writing:

"The tiniest right action, the action in complete unself-conscious natural awareness, connects to all the rightness in the universe. And the universe is always right. Because it owns all of our asses, plus black holes, and those teensy pinholes in time that physicist say make you an immediate neighbor of Shakespeare and mastodons -- only you don't know it. It owns the molecules of the ages. Everything."

Erin is a Dance Artist, Poet, Speaker, Transformational Facilitator & Creator of LifeDance & Luminosity. She has been a featured performer, speaker and leader for movements such as "One Billion Rising" and "100,000 Poets for Change," and her writing and poems have been published in magazines, journals and e-books. Her greatest joy is in guiding others to discover their own luminous essence, and let life dance through them!